Radley Balko, as usual, gets it right on the trial and verdict of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle: Early in the morning of January 1, 2009, in a now infamous incident captured on video by dozens of cell phones and replayed across the globe, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Officer Johannes Mehserle shot and [...]
More than 1,000 of them – to pay their final respects to four officers from the Lakewood, Washington Police Department, who were killed in the line of duty just over a week ago. Sergeant Mark Renninger Officer Tina Griswold Officer Ronald Owens Officer Greg Richards RIP.
From today’s Washington Post, presented without comment, but with a large smile: When arson investigators in Houston needed help restoring a damaged surveillance tape to identify suspects in a fatal fire, they turned first to local experts and then to NASA. With no luck there, investigators appealed to the owner of one of the most [...]